🍽💈💇🏽 Feed Barber

The Feed Barber is a feed proxy that can trim up, shape up, condition, and pretty up your unkept feeds.

Overview

What is it?

• The Feed Barber is self-hostable rss proxy that can change rss feeds on the fly, give them a trim, add some body, and much more based on what you setup.

What Problems Does This Solve?

• Have you ever found an awesome site, but they are too inlove with their ads to give you the full content in the rss feed? The Feed Barber can trim that up.
• Have you ever wished you could rank a feed based on data in the feed itself? The Feed Barber can trim that up.
• Have you ever wished you could convert things into a feed that dont have a feed? The Feed Barber can trim that up.
• Ever wished you could remove ads from a feed. The Feed Barber can trim those too.
• And many other ailments...

NON-GOALs

• Unless you enjoy reading XML, this is not the best way to collect & read enhanced feeds. This is first and foremost, a way to make the content destined to shows up in your existing feed reader BETTER.

• Perhaps this project will one day spawn a sister project that could better utlize such effortless enhancement. Maybe one day...

Usage

So you found an unkept feed with terrible bangs, or worse a bald feed.... geez there's a plague of them out there. Your next steps are to:

1. Choose an Enhancement.
2. Setup the Enhancement.
3. Subscribe the unkept feed through, your new Enhancement.

You then subscribe to the proxied-url like these exmaples:

• https://thefeedBarber.com/{{userID}}/rss/{{enhance1_ID}}/somesite.com/feed.xml
• https://thefeedBarber.com/{{userID}}/atom/{{enhance2_ID}}/anemicsite.com/atom.xml

Developers Note

This project uses a makefile insead of package.json#scripts as the script runner

$> make

Available make commands:

fmt
start
test
  ...
  ...

Selling Enhancements

List your Enhancement for sale:

• explain what it does
• give exmaple sites where it works as intentded
• give a before/after picture of the feed in a reader application
• list the price - or list as publically available
• listing versions as public is a one-way door or an irrersible process

Buying and Setting up Enhancements

• browse the shelves of Enhancements for ugly pages
• some are general purpose
• some are highly specific
• Buy $10 of credits and spend your credits.
• With a Cure available to your account, configure the cure for your site and ensure you see the results desired.
• Save the configured-cure
• subscribe to the proxied-feed

Composing an Enhancement

See Enhancement on the Wiki

• You can use other 'Enhancements' within your own
• You can use 'Enhancements' that you have purchased, as well as public 'Enhancements'
• So its possible to have a cure that is merely a novel composition of other cures.
• If you were to list your 'Enhancements' "for sale", then dependent 'Enhancements' get a percentages of your list price

Software Library Support

After watching how package and modules, permitting unlimited dependency trees (im looking at your npm) eventually fail to create a monetization path for those that maintain crucial elements of plugin support, it is the strong opinion of feedbarber that anything sold within the ecosystem should support the underlying software libraries.

Feed Barber Accounts